Re: Books that you have read and enjoyed

I will have to agree on But Always Fine Bourbon as great read and nice coffee table piece.I have also enjoyed both of Cowdery's books Bourbon Straight and The Best Bourbon You'll Never Taste as I like his straight forward no nonsense style of writing and both make for very quick reads.
I have also enjoyed The World's Best Whiskies by Dominic Roskrow and The Kentucky Bourbon Experience by Leon Howlett a quick read and the photography is second to none.The Kentucky Bourbon Experience would be a great read for someone new to the hobby and give you a great feel for which distilleries you may want to visit or other attractions along the trail.

"To deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human."
Larry Wachowski​

I also subscribe to Whisky Advocate magazine, which I think is fairly well done (although many editions focus a lot of Scotch - they do seem to increased their bourbon coverage recently).

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"Too much of anything is bad, but too much of good whiskey is barely enough." - Mark Twain
"Because Whiskey Matters!" - David Perkins

Books that you have read and enjoyed

Blood & Whiskey, the Life and Times of Jack Daniel. Biography about the man and his company. Fun read and learned a little history along the way.

The Great Crossing, a Historic Journey to Buffalo Trace Distillery. Lots if history, names and events leading to the distillery we know today. I bought this at the gift shop and have not seen it available online. Maybe someone else knows.

Re: Books that you have read and enjoyed

Less specific to bourbon, but a great book for cocktail and literature lovers, I received "To Have and Have Another" for Christmas. It is a fantatstic book documenting all the cocktails that Ernest Hemingway drank and wrote about. A great read, and good recipes. Most interesting note so far? The Jack Rose cocktail we all know and love is probably NOT what was being consumed by the characters in "The Sun Also Rises"; the author found an alternate recipe being made in the bar Hemingway frequented during the writing of that book, by a bartender he knew well. It is very different, but I like it better than the traditional, and just the concept behind this little slice of history adds to the pleasure.